2.2.5. Ethanol Mechanism

A chemistry set for methanol fuel (mechanism name: c2h5oh) has been included: Ethanol_MFL2024.cks.

This chemistry set can be used for combustion modeling of ethanol fuel with any acetylene-based empirical soot model. It can be used to predict CO, HC (hydrocarbons), soot, and NOx emissions. The mechanism has been reduced for the following range of conditions:

  1. Pressure: 1–100 bar

  2. Temperature: 800–2000 K

  3. Equivalence ratio: 0.5–3

  4. EGR: 0–20%

This mechanism has been reduced from the full mechanism “Gasoline_PAH_NOx” in the MFL database, which has been thoroughly validated against fundamental experimental data for the operating conditions of interest for engines. The mechanism was reduced from this comprehensive full mechanism using Reaction Workbench software, for the conditions listed above.